GIRL, YOU KNOW IT’S TRUE

The KZNSA Mezzanine Gallery and Multi-Media Room is currently hosting an exhibition by Carmen Sober titled Girl You Know It’s True. Sober is a Wits graduate whose work has been well received on the international arts circuit – the USA, Moscow, Sweden. She has been the recipient of numerous prestigious scholarships and awards most notably the Brait-Everard award in 2009.

Sobers’ work for this award looks specifically at the sensational and fantastic narratives that form the stock material for tabloid journalism and urban legends. Using photography, installation and performance, Sober confronts the viewer with the absurd and the ridiculous.

Her work is centred very much within a theatrical mode. Costume, drag, disguises, moustache, staging, wit, narratives, cliché, and memory, all form part of both the performance and the documentation of her photographs.

The exhibition is a multi-media project consisting of sound, installation, performance, video and photographic works that brings to Durban an outstanding example of a young artists cutting edge approach to art production that brings together art making, technology, social comment and the media.

Girl You Know It’s True runs until March 13. The KZNSA Gallery is situated at 166 Bulwer Road, Glenwood, in Durban. More information on 031 277 1703, fax 031 201 8051 or cell 082 220 0368 or visit www.kznsagallery.co.za